Waqas Akhtar
@waqasakhtar.bsky.social
Consultant in Intensive Care & Cardiology @gstt-nhs.bsky.social @rbandh.bsky.social | Treasurer, Critical Care @roysocmed.bsky.social | Past RDC Chair AoMRC & FICM | 🫀 See www.mls.training
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📣Review Sharing:
🧾Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Reviewing the Evidence and Exploring Its Equitable Implementation in the UK National Health Service
👩🔬@waqasakhtar.bsky.social , Nicholas A Barrett
💡Full Text: magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....
#ECPR #ECMO #resuscitation #medsky
🧾Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Reviewing the Evidence and Exploring Its Equitable Implementation in the UK National Health Service
👩🔬@waqasakhtar.bsky.social , Nicholas A Barrett
💡Full Text: magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....
#ECPR #ECMO #resuscitation #medsky
Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Reviewing the Evidence and Exploring Its Equitable Implementation in the UK National Health Service | British Journal of Hospital Medicine
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation offers a potentially revolutionary improvement in the historically poor outcomes for refractory cardiac arrest. Current evidence has only demonstrated effi...
magonlinelibrary.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
📣Review Sharing:
🧾Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Reviewing the Evidence and Exploring Its Equitable Implementation in the UK National Health Service
👩🔬@waqasakhtar.bsky.social , Nicholas A Barrett
💡Full Text: magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....
#ECPR #ECMO #resuscitation #medsky
🧾Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Reviewing the Evidence and Exploring Its Equitable Implementation in the UK National Health Service
👩🔬@waqasakhtar.bsky.social , Nicholas A Barrett
💡Full Text: magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....
#ECPR #ECMO #resuscitation #medsky
British societies guideline on management of emergencies in patients on ECMO
🫀Recognition of cardiac arrest
🏥 Team structure
🕵️ Early troubleshooting
@bcs.com @ics-updates.bsky.social @ficm.bsky.social @baccnuk.bsky.social @resuscounciluk.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
🫀Recognition of cardiac arrest
🏥 Team structure
🕵️ Early troubleshooting
@bcs.com @ics-updates.bsky.social @ficm.bsky.social @baccnuk.bsky.social @resuscounciluk.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
British societies guideline on management of emergencies in patients on ECMO
🫀Recognition of cardiac arrest
🏥 Team structure
🕵️ Early troubleshooting
@bcs.com @ics-updates.bsky.social @ficm.bsky.social @baccnuk.bsky.social @resuscounciluk.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
🫀Recognition of cardiac arrest
🏥 Team structure
🕵️ Early troubleshooting
@bcs.com @ics-updates.bsky.social @ficm.bsky.social @baccnuk.bsky.social @resuscounciluk.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Reposted by Waqas Akhtar
New safety checklists now published by the Society and FICM focusing on procedures commonly performed in ICUs.
Find them in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society or download editable PDFs below.
bit.ly/checklists25
Find them in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society or download editable PDFs below.
bit.ly/checklists25
May 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
New safety checklists now published by the Society and FICM focusing on procedures commonly performed in ICUs.
Find them in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society or download editable PDFs below.
bit.ly/checklists25
Find them in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society or download editable PDFs below.
bit.ly/checklists25
There is no plan
📝 Resident doctors: return of the lost tribe
Must be a comprehensive workforce plan in 10 year NHS plan, LTWP & PG review
Hold our national institutions to account - we cannot stand idly by as generation of doctors are failed by a broken system
bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...
📝 Resident doctors: return of the lost tribe
Must be a comprehensive workforce plan in 10 year NHS plan, LTWP & PG review
Hold our national institutions to account - we cannot stand idly by as generation of doctors are failed by a broken system
bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...
Resident doctors: return of the lost tribe
There is no plan. The resident doctor workforce faces a crisis without a clear vision for its future. Tackling this issue requires a challenging and fundamental reassessment of the future of doctors i...
bmjleader.bmj.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
There is no plan
📝 Resident doctors: return of the lost tribe
Must be a comprehensive workforce plan in 10 year NHS plan, LTWP & PG review
Hold our national institutions to account - we cannot stand idly by as generation of doctors are failed by a broken system
bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...
📝 Resident doctors: return of the lost tribe
Must be a comprehensive workforce plan in 10 year NHS plan, LTWP & PG review
Hold our national institutions to account - we cannot stand idly by as generation of doctors are failed by a broken system
bmjleader.bmj.com/content/earl...
Is this the time for @ficm.bsky.social and @ics-updates.bsky.social to unify as professional organisations for intensive care medicine?
A single unified louder voice, enhancing collaboration & reducing duplication/cost for a stronger College of ICM in the UK
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A single unified louder voice, enhancing collaboration & reducing duplication/cost for a stronger College of ICM in the UK
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Intensive Care Society congratulates the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) on their announcement that they will transition to become the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) in July 2026.
@ficm.bsky.social
@ficm.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Is this the time for @ficm.bsky.social and @ics-updates.bsky.social to unify as professional organisations for intensive care medicine?
A single unified louder voice, enhancing collaboration & reducing duplication/cost for a stronger College of ICM in the UK
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A single unified louder voice, enhancing collaboration & reducing duplication/cost for a stronger College of ICM in the UK
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Waqas Akhtar
There are now more female than male doctors in the UK, a significant milestone for the profession and for patients.
Our RB chair @latifapatel.bsky.social is quoted in the Guardian today alongside other medical leaders.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Our RB chair @latifapatel.bsky.social is quoted in the Guardian today alongside other medical leaders.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Female doctors outnumber male peers in UK for first time
GMC figures also show there are more ethnic minority doctors than white ones, first reported in November
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
There are now more female than male doctors in the UK, a significant milestone for the profession and for patients.
Our RB chair @latifapatel.bsky.social is quoted in the Guardian today alongside other medical leaders.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Our RB chair @latifapatel.bsky.social is quoted in the Guardian today alongside other medical leaders.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Waqas Akhtar
BTPT are excited to be in Manchester with The Herrick Society to kick off our first joint in-person education event on the "Fundamentals of Transplantation" 🚀
Huge thanks to our star organisers Khin & @mrgeorgenita.bsky.social 🌟 & BTS for support
More posts to come.....
Huge thanks to our star organisers Khin & @mrgeorgenita.bsky.social 🌟 & BTS for support
More posts to come.....
December 2, 2024 at 8:44 AM
BTPT are excited to be in Manchester with The Herrick Society to kick off our first joint in-person education event on the "Fundamentals of Transplantation" 🚀
Huge thanks to our star organisers Khin & @mrgeorgenita.bsky.social 🌟 & BTS for support
More posts to come.....
Huge thanks to our star organisers Khin & @mrgeorgenita.bsky.social 🌟 & BTS for support
More posts to come.....
New start on blue sky, Scottish Highlands winter adventure, what next?
November 30, 2024 at 11:00 AM
New start on blue sky, Scottish Highlands winter adventure, what next?